Norway | HCRW

Norway regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. In 2021, the Norway Police established a National Expertise Group on Hate Crime. The Group is part of the Oslo Police District and is a reinforcement of the Oslo Police District's Hate Crime Unit. The mandate of the Group is to build the capacities of the regional police districts through training and guidance and, if necessary, to provide assistance in specific cases.

The Attorney General's Annual Circular, which sets out goals and priorities for the year for police and prosecution services, has included hate crime as a priority area for over 20 years. This means that hate crime cases, whatever the severity, are given priority and cannot be dismissed due to capacity or other reasons within police districts.

SELECT YEAR

Download the 2011 hate crime report for Norway

OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2023	1,090	310	250
2022	923	263	203
2021	959	54	17
2020	744	804	67
2019	761	70	37
2018	624	60	37
2017	549	Not available	Not available
2016	466	Not available	Not available
2015	347	Not available	Not available
2014	223	Not available	Not available
2013	238	Not available	Not available
2012	216	Not available	Not available
2011	218	Not available	Not available
2010	307	Not available	Not available
2009	236	Not available	Not available

About 2011 Data

Figures include crimes of incitement to hatred. There is a discrepancy between the total figure and the sum of the breakdown by bias motivations because some crimes are recorded under multiple bias motivations.

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National developments

The Norwegian Police arrested Anders Behring Breivik and charged him with the 22 July 2011 attacks on government buildings in Oslo and a political party youth summer camp on Utøya Island, which killed a total of 77 people and injured hundreds more. The main court trial began on 16 April 2012. Breivik has claimed he carried out the massacre on Utøya in order to wipe out the next generation of a political party he blamed for encouraging a multicultural Norway.

KEY OBSERVATION

No information is available.

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that Norway provide more information on judicial statistics on prosecution, convictions and sentences on racist acts, noting a considerable lack of such information.